Portfolio: Design

MA Creative Research
Treated objects, photography, film and physical spatial intervention
An exploration of the mechanisms which instigate our emotional relationship with the material world.  My works focus upon notions of presence and absence, stillness and motion, and how the unsettling realms in-between may exploit our sensitivity to the distinction between living and non living things.

Installation: Dislocated Shadows
Wax immersed childrens cardigans, domestic light bulbs and moving image projection 
An immersive installation for the Chelsea Summer Show 2011, Chelsea College of Art and Design

British Land Spatial Art Competition: Finalist
A proposed intervention at Regent's Place, Euston Road, London.
 

VM Screen Concept for LK Bennett
Internship at Curated Space: Brand research and initial designs to pitch to the client

Leeds Register Office
BA Self Directed Project
Visuals created in 3DS Max, sections in AutoCAD with layered hand drawing and printed acetate.

Temporary Pavilion
RSA Competition Entry
Visuals created using model photography and Adobe Photoshop. Plans and sections in AutoCAD.

 

Site Response: Ridley Road Market, Dalston
During the day, Ridley Road in East London bustles with people, vibrant fabrics, food, music and conversation. At night, only the skeletal stall structures remain, eerily littered with the deserted remnants of activity.  The spaces become animated by ambiguous sound, and the surreptitious movements of loose materials and shadows.  Revealed by emptiness, the aesthetics of the makeshift structures also divulge the poverty which envelops the site and evoke apprehension of the consequent social issues which generally become masked by activity during the day.

My research into the juxtaposition of dislocated sound and image samples informed the editing of the initial scene of the film.  The sound used in this section was recorded whilst walking the same route as the visual accompanyment implies, but during the day. A tension between stillness and movement is present in both the filming techniques and the subtle movements of objects within the scene, conveying the ambiguity of presence and absence at the site, and the eeriness of percieved abandonment.



Site Response: Intervention 
Experience the Order, Contemplate the Chaos: A 'blue sky' proposal for Eastgate Flyover, Leeds
Routes across this busy road junction are simplified by enclosed tunnels. Viewed externally, the reflective surfaces create visual chaos.

From top: Visual (bleach and pencil on collaged paper), Conceptual Model, Publicising the proposal; a corrugated flyer